For
the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, our parish had some of the kids dress up in
Mexican folk attire. The girls dressed
up as our Blessed Mother (under her Virgin of Guadalupe title) and the boys as
Juan Diego, the indigenous man who was the recipient of the 16th
century apparitions near Mexico City.
Here
is Matthew dressed as Juan Diego.
I’m
not going to relate the entire story (you can read it here), but suffice it to
say that the image on the poncho was a result of Juan gathering roses in
December (a miracle in itself) and when he opened the poncho in front of his
local bishop, an image of the Blessed Mother had been impressed from the roses
on the poncho. That poncho is still on
display and I believe the analysis of the image supports a stain rather than a
painted on by human hands.
